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BIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS ON LINN^US. 



III. 



Frederick Boerner's account of the lives and writings of the cele- 

 brated German and Foreign Naturalists; in German. Wolfenbuttel, 

 1749, Svo. part 1st. from page eigty-fve to ninety eight. 



IV. 



English Originals in prose and verse, colleEled hy J. L. Schultze. 

 Halle, 1760 and 1766, ^vo. — contains a short biographical essay. 



Moehsen's description of a colleUion of Medals at Berlin, mostly con- 

 sisting of those which have been struck to honour the meViOry of celebrated 

 Physicians; German. Berlin, 1 vol. 1773. 



VI. 



Epistolse ab eruditis Viris, ad Alb. Hallerum Scriptae, or, Letters 

 from the Learned to Baron Albert Haller. Berlin, 1773 1775? 

 six vols, large ^vo. The three first contain the Letters of Linn^us, from 

 1737 to 1749) making altogether twenty-five in number. These biogra- 

 phical literary articles called Letters, which Linnaeus probably never 

 expe8ed would be made public, are truly valuable for the air of confidence 

 with which they seem to have been communicated, and for their authenticity. 



VII. 



Amminelse Tal ofver Hr. Arch, och Riddar Carl, von Linne, ^c, 

 by Abraham Back; or Commemorative Speech on Sir Charles Lin- 

 N^us, delivered in presence of the late King of Sweden, in the Academy 

 of Sciences of Stockholm, on the ^th of December, 1778, by the Chevalier 

 Abraham Back, Dean of the Royal College of Physicians : published 



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